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To: TimF who wrote (48532)	7/12/2013 12:46:47 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 85487

I think people have to decide on what they want their government to do and have the right to ask for that by voting. That is how democracy works. Every single western democracy has universal health care except us. The "people" in other countries voted for that." We do not seem to want universal health care, yet. Some day we will have it. We are just behind the other countries. We are also the only western democracy that has a death penalty. We are behind other western democracies in lots of things, IMO. Texas, the freedom state, has the least amount of people with health insurance of any state in the union and has had that record for five years. And Perry just turned down free Medicaid for the poor from the feds. I know of no better system than a democracy for governance.